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What do you guys think of the reddit alternatives? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) by nerdhd@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Digg:

It had potential, but after becoming an ai news aggregator now there's none.

Lemmy:

Low engagement / kinda dead. Also, I have heard that the growth is slowing down(somebody pls provide a citation for this).

Besides that, it's pretty much reddit, for better or for worse.

9gag:

I just made a post there, my first impressions are not good. Got insulted and my post got removed. Now, that might have something to do with me not understanding how the website works, but only time will tell. I will spend more time there to see if it's worth anything.

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Lemmy.ml isn't really defederated. Individual users may block it, but that doesn't stop me from seeing their viewpoints, it just stops them from seeing mine. You could make a Lemmy.zip account, and just subscribe to the communities across instances you want to see, then scroll by "subscribed," making your own local feed.

I don't know what you mean by "moderately conservative communists," communists are definitionally radicals.

[–] Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au 1 points 57 minutes ago (1 children)

When I speak of 'moderately conservative communists,' I mean something closer to someone who acknowledges that to survive the ecological catastrophe and economic madness, we must become conservative. We must conserve the commons, the state's capacity to protect its citizens, and the welfare state against the 'radical' destruction of the market. Basically I think we should have a strong state that limits the freedom of corporations to destroy us.

Please counter-attack where I go astray, preferably viciously too.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 19 minutes ago

I don't really think "conservative" is a helpful angle due to the connotations. I think "pragmatic, and planned" are good descriptors. The advancement of green energy, the radical restructuring of society, all of this is definitely not seen as "conservative." Further, I'm confused if you mean social democracy, or socialism proper (ie, Nordic capitalism vs. China's socialist market economy).